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The Defense of Human Rights

In accordance with the teachings of the Gospel, the equality of men consists in this: that all, having inherited the same nature, are called to the same most high dignity of the sons of God, and that, as one and the same end is set before all, each one is to be judged by the same law and will receive punishment or reward according to his deserts.

- Leo XIII,  Quod Apostoloci Muneris, December 28, 1878

To stifle the opinions of citizens, to reduce them forcibly to silence, is, in the eyes of every Christian, an outrage on the natural rights of man.

- Pius XII, Address to the International Convention of Catholic Press, February 18, 1950

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

- Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891

The Church teaches (She alone has been given by God the mandate and the right to teach with authority) that not only our acts as individuals but also as groups and as nations must conform to the eternal law of God.

- Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922